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[Themis]

Hi Dimitri,

Just out of interest, what DACs have you compared the Beresford to? Have you heard it outperform something significantly more expensive?

I ask because it's always useful to know what someone's current benchmark has been judged against

Marco.

The Caiman did not "outperformed significantly" more expensive dacs imho. But it does come to the same quality as many dacs around £1000 (my Northstar192, for instance) which is already a huge performance. Other comparable (expensive) dacs include 3DLab, Benchmark, Lavry, YBA and Stello.

I was interested mainly in comparing it to under £500-dacs (I won't give you the list of the number of dacs I listened under this price : it is a long list...). At this price range, it really outperforms a great number of them.

As far as I am concerned, there used to be a "gap" separating good-sounding dacs from the others : it used to be at around £1500 a few years ago.
This "gap" is actually at around £400 and keeps going down... You can find very well-made (with discrete output stages and great power sections) dacs at this price.
Good news for our pocket !